The 27,700 level. Remember, it was 18,000 on march 23rd. The s p, what, nearly 3400. New alltime high. The nasdaq well over the 11,000 mark. Who would have thought of that. Add it all up and yes, we are now in a brand new bull market. Heres another reason for the rally. Terrific performance from major retailers, target, out today with a blowout report. Online sales nearly tripled. It was targets best overall growth rate ever. That stock is going straight up. Add this to the numbers from walmart, home depot and its clear the major retailers won big by staying open in the lockdown. Really, though, kind of tough on the smaller operators. Got to get to it. The convention, boring in my judgment. Tv ratings way down. Wheres the excitement . Everything is on tape and the whole thing lacks the spontaneity of a live crowd. The performance of the old guard, bill clinton, john kerry and a grim chuck schumer. The bright spot was aocs oneminute appearance. She nominated Bernie Sanders. The democrat
The weather is supposed to be nice before it turns over the weekend. Mostly sunny and breezy and we find out more in detail about the weather coming up. Me, right and garcia anhere we are in the new normalout it i w away for the family for a quick four day trip having a blast. I touched on this last week. Flipping on the old pictures of your phone. It seems like a year ago. Im thinking of news events that have been two months ago and it feels like three years ago. Im all about routine and speaking of phones we use them to stay connected and the liver than a halfhour of us. Every night we have a standing facetime call and some of us are eating dinner. My sister has a darling baby we love to gush over and these phones are more critical staying together because we cant just drive down and say a quick hello anymore expect when they do th uill keep their distance. We are getting used to this and the wonder social distancing will take a while. I dont think everyone is having a big hug party.
And im kristen sze. Thanks for joining us. A couple of grim milestones today with the coronavirus. The state of california has well over 2,000 confirmed cases. The bay area topped the one thousand mark this morning as the virus keeps spreading that includes a San Francisco Police Sergeant with the special victims unit who worked at the hall of justice. The sergeant has tested positive. A second Oakland Police employ plo has tested positive and a fourth santa clara sheriffs deputy has been infected while Los Angeles County reported the first person under the age of 18 to die in the u. S. From coronavirus. Now here is where those cases are in the bay area. Santa claras case count went up today by 54, pushing the total to 375. There were three new fatalities there reported within the past 24 hours. The south bay continues to be the most impacted county here. Alameda county reported a second death today. Its total case count is now 135. And San Franciscos total has increased to 152. There
Spread of the corona virus as cases surge around the globe the centers for Disease Control in the u. S. Is warning that another outbreak there could be banned and a german town searching for answers after a car crashes into a carnival parade 60 people including many children were injured in that incident and police have not been able to interview and question the driver and the 70th brylin Film Festival is focusing on women and the politics of power today my colleagues i mean asses and scott roxboro are down at the red carpet. At the bell analogy day 2 films from korea and one american about women struggling to tell their own story plus dark comedy for the upcoming italian director duo that did oceans oprah others that more coming up. Im bring golf its good to have you with us the former egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 91 after assuming the presidency back in 1981 mubarak held on to power for 3 decades through a system that was built on repression corruption and
Day. Looks like theyre getting it under control more and more of. It no need for anything the countries have to be prepared for the virus literally knocking at their door if. We dont speak about it and that meeting at this point. The medical authorities have to be ready i dont. Suppose ill tell it all as doctors said at the careful but still be panicked. Also coming up the u. S. President Donald Trumps 2 day visit to india is over no new trade deal for the u. S. Economy but lots and lots of law. Yes im on this relationship its the most Important Partnership of the 21st century the u. S. Indian partnership is now truly stronger than ever before. On to our viewers on p. B. S. Watching in the United States and all the around the world welcome we begin the day with 2 emerging pictures of the corona Virus Outbreak tonight there are more than 80000 people infected with the coded 1000 corona virus worldwide most of them are in china China Remains the hardest hit country but there are signs th